This time of year the carpenter bees are everywhere. In the past two years I’ve had ‘Bee Gone’ insecticide applied, but I could still see bee activity. This year I’m going a different route by putting up traps. After two days they seem to work pretty well, I’ve order three more so I can have them on all sides of the house.
Carpenter Bee Trap
The four guineas have been busy this spring. They’ve laid a total of 23 eggs in the barn. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the hen(s) to sit on them, in fact they laid them in random places all over the coop. After about two weeks I took all of them and put them in an incubator, we’ll find out soon enough if they are fertile, they should hatch around the 20th of May.
In the incubator!
I put them all together in the barn but they refused to sit on them
Purchased a whole load of fish from a Zetts up in West Virginia, the containers took up the entire trailer and pickup truck. The fish included:
Maddy & Patrick helped me spread them around the pond. Keeping fingers crossed that they will take.
Picking up at Zetts
Came in bags like this
At the pond with my helpers
Putting them in the pond
Snails are huge!
